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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪˈkleɪm/
• 韻: -eɪm

動詞

declaim (third-person singular simple present declaims, present participle declaiming, simple past and past participle declaimed)

1. (intransitive) To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
   • 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:

     Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act.

2. (intransitive) To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking.

   The students declaim twice a week.

3. (transitive) To object to something vociferously; to rail against in speech.
   • 1994, Lawrence Murray, Lonely is the Pioneer:

     Their love had gone too far on occasion: praying to those pictures and then sliding to worship those drawings as pagans had once worshiped idols. Many priests declaimed the practice and warned that the people were violating God's first commandment against false idols.

   • 1996, Lalitha Gopalan, “Indian Cinema”, in Jill Nelmes, editor, An Introduction to Film Studies:

     Declaiming such practices, Baskaran writes: 'The flow of the film would not be affected in the least if song sequences were excised, wholly or partly'

   • 2014, Cameron D. Lippard, Charles A. Gallagher, editors, Race and Racism in the United States:

     American leaders found it difficult to attack Soviet injustices and demand equality and the rule of law worldwide when African Americans endured systematic segregation throughout much of the nation. Facing Soviet propaganda that declaimed such hypocrisy, and fearful it would alter the status of the Cold War enabling the Soviets to lure African, Asian, and Middle Eastern states into their orbit […]

4. (transitive, proscribed) To disclaim, disavow.
   • 1835 February 20, “Mr. Adams and the French”, in North River Times:

     He now declaimed having intended any thing disrespectful to the Senate in the expression he had used.

   • 1928 September, “The Cooperation of the Pharmacist and the Wholesale Druggist (advertisement)”, in Druggist's Circular, page 77:

     Unless these conditions are fulfilled we declaim responsibility.

   • 2009, Christopher McKnight Nichols, “The "New" No-Religionists”, in Culture:

     Of course, a small minority has always declaimed any religious affiliation, and some agnostics have been prominent figures in American public life.

   • 2018 July 18, “Ekiti Poll: PDP declaims involvement in votes buying”, in CEOAfrica:

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